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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (72956)	2/28/2005 11:59:42 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

I don't advocate we get rid of ALL our nukes (yet). The first step would be to jointly, with Russia, reduce our stockpiles until we still had a comfortable superiority over, say, China. Nixon started this, Carter, Ford, Reagan, Bush Sr. and Clinton continued it, Bush Jr. has ignored it and let it die. Then, engage China in reducing to the next threshold - to form a consortium of countries with the most nukes pressuring and negotiating reductions in ALL the countries that own nukes. That doesn't happen through the barrel of a gun, by invading countries. That happens through diplomacy, with all the parties working for a common good. We might never eliminate ALL the nukes, but if we could get the world nuclear stockpile from 5 figures down to 2 or 3, that would be some real progress. The Presidents I mentioned above reduced the Russian and American stockpiles from 25k each to 10k or so each, so, it can work. We just need to be concerned about REAL threats, not gay marriage and a SS system that's not broken.